Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Henry Yen <he...@ae...> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Alan Brown wrote:
>
>> Tape speed testing while writing a repetitive file is useless as
>> hardware compression makes it go a lot faster than natually.
>>
>> For tape tests use /dev/random
>
> On (at least) Linux, /dev/random will quickly block - use /dev/urandom instead.

Since these tend to be slow I would just create a large file from one of these.

John